Three Ball Line Up

Two children are playing with three balls, one blue, one red and one green.

They toss up the balls, which run down a slope so that they land in a row of three.

In how many different ways could the balls land?

Can you use and apply a systematic way of working to ensure that you find all the possible solutions?

If you want to explore this challenge using an interactive activity, please follow this link.

Extension: What would happen if you added a Yellow ball as well?

Would this increase or decrease the number of possible ball arrangements? Prove it!

Cups Cups Cups

For this challenge, you will need lots of different cups. 

Which might you choose if you wanted a lot to drink?  Why?

Which one would you choose if you did not want a lot to drink?  Why?

Make a prediction. Try to arrange the cups in a line from the one that holds the most liquid to the one that holds the least liquid.

Design a way of finding out if you were right or not.

Did you get the order right? How do you know for sure?

Rank these events from least to most naughty to create a naughtyometer!

Use the following questions to help you make up your mind.

Not doing any homework for a whole week

Is school like a job? Are there more excuses for not doing homework than schoolwork? What counts as a good excuse? Could there be good reasons for not doing any work?

Stealing from the school canteen / Stealing someone's lunch

Is stealing always wrong? Is it worse to steal from a person or an organisation? Who are you stealing from if you steal from a school?

Calling another pupil a bad name - Calling a teacher a bad name

Is calling someone names worse than hitting someone? Would a child feel worse than a teacher? Would you get punished worse for insulting a teacher than a child? Should you?

Hitting someone / Seeing someone hitting someone, and doing nothing about it / Hitting someone back

Can two wrongs make a right? Can you do something to someone that’s done it to you without it being bad?

Is watching someone get hit worse than watching someone fall over?

Write a short story with these as the opening sentences:

I woke up suddenly, there was something in my room. It burst out of the wardrobe.

Think about:

What was in your wardrobe?

How did it get there?

Was it evil or good?

Check:

Capital letters and full stops?

Does every sentence make sense?

Have you written it in the first person?

Have you described the thing inside the wardrobe in detail?

How will you end your writing in an interesting way?

Don’t forget to send your writing into dailychallenge@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk so we can read it and post it on the blog.

Well done Albie. We love the way you completed two different versions of this challenge.